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Darrell Issa accused of leaking misinformation about Healthcare.gov in attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are accusing Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) of selectively leaking misinformation about HealthCare.gov in an effort to portray administration officials as misleading the public about the implementation of Obamacare.

On Thursday, Issa appeared on Fox News and claimed that he had obtained documents proving that contractors working on Healthcare.gov believed that the site could only handle 1,100 users before launch. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had publicly stated that the administration believed that the site could handle 60,000 concurrent users.

But in a letter to Issa, Rep. Ellijah Cummings (D-MD), the ranking member on the Committee, pointed to an interview Issa’s own staff conducted with Henry Chao, the Deputy Information Officer. Chao explained that the 1,000 figure were “the results of a much smaller testing environment” and were not conducted “with final production testing of the system at full capacity.”

“The estimates for the full [Obamacare] website environment were considerably higher,” Cummings writes, adding, “[I]t is reckless and highly irresponsible to make unsubstantiated public allegations by taking information out of context, especially when the Committee has information in its possession that directly contradicts these unfounded allegations.”

This, of course, is nothing new coming from Issa who is well known to have virtually NOT one ethical bone in his body. He approaches his job as House Oversight Committee Chairman as if he is a"fixer" for the Mafia and is tasked with making GOP problems go away while exaggerating the problems with his political enemies.

Issa is a street hood who has been dressed up to appear less thuggish in public, but at his core he is still the punk kid who was indicted twice for stealing cars.

Not a surprise that he is one of the more prominent members of the House Republicans.

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